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Murder Gas Powered Motorized Scooter in the First claims that
Young was a teenage orphan who was sentenced to Alcatraz for stealing $5
from a grocery store in order to feed his starving sister, and that he
"never harmed or attempted to harm anyone" before entering Alcatraz. The
true story is that he was a bank robber who had taken and brutalized a
hostage on at least one occasion and committed murder in 1933--some 3
years before being incarcerated at Alcatraz. He had served time in State
prisons in Montana and Washington before entering Federal prison for the
first time in 1935 at the U.S. Penitentiary on McNeil Island, Washington
(which is now a State prison). Gas Powered Motorized Scooter
Although Gas Powered Motorized Scooter Young did participate in a
January 1939 escape attempt, he was not kept naked in a dark dungeon for
3 years as punishment, as the movie indicates. Instead, he was held in
the disciplinary segregation unit in the main cellhouse as punishment
for the escape attempt. He was confined to a normal cell--not a
dungeon--with plumbing, an electric light, a cot, and other appropriate
cell furnishings. Various events in the movie set in a dungeon--such as
scenes where the associate warden slashes Young's Achilles tendon to
prevent future escapes--are fabrications. Gas Powered Moterized Scooter
The events surrounding Young's fatal attack on Rufus McCain are also
portrayed inaccurately. In the movie, Young becomes a madman after 3
years in the dungeon, is then taken directly from the dungeon to the
dining hall, and, moments later, stabs McCain to death with a spoon
handle. The implication is that Young's homicidal behavior was a direct
result of his inhumane confinement and that he had no control over his
actions.
In reality, Young was released from his cell in segregation after only a
few months. He was returned to the general population no later than
autumn 1939. More than a year after that--in December 1940--he killed
Gas Powered Motorized Scooter McCain in the industries building.
The movie also implies that Young died on Alcatraz in 1942, evidently
committing suicide after scrawling the word "victory" on the wall or
floor of his cell. This is not true, either. Young remained at Alcatraz
until 1948, when he was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal
Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri. When his Federal Gas Powered
Motorized Scooter sentence expired in 1954, he was turned over to the
Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla to begin a life sentence
for an earlier murder conviction. In 1972, he was released from
Washington State Penitentiary, but he jumped parole and, according to
Washington State authorities, his whereabouts are unknown. Far from
committing suicide 53 years ago, therefore, Young might still be alive.
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